Samsung Galaxy Watch6 smartwatches to launch with familiar Exynos W930 chipset

Samsung has certified a new Exynos wearable chipset with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Previously, the company was rumoured to have developed the Exynos W980 for the Galaxy Watch6 series, which is expected to debut next month with new Galaxy Tab S tablets. In summary, the Exynos W980 was described as containing minor performance improvement over the Exynos W920 powering the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch 5 series.

The Bluetooth SIG's certification arguably implies as much, with Exynos W930 listed instead of Exynos W980. Additionally, the listing also refers to the Exynos W930 as 'Exynos S5E5515', the same model number that Samsung assigned to its predecessor. Hence, it seems that the Exynos W930 is a re-branded Exynos W920, equivalent to Apple's approach with its S6, S7 and S8 chipsets.

If that is the case, we would expect the Exynos W930 to feature boosted CPU and GPU clock speeds to achieve its alleged 10% performance improvement. Alternatively, Samsung may have based the W930 on a newer manufacturing process to improve performance and battery life. For reference, Samsung builds the Exynos W920 on 5 nm nodes with two ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores that can boost to 1.18 GHz when necessary, as well as a Mali-G68 MP2 GPU. Currently, Samsung is thought to have developed several Galaxy Watch6 series models, three of which the FCC certified earlier this month.

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